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Price increase for .ZA.COM, .SA.COM and .RU.COM

The registries for the 3 above TLD’s have notified us of a price increase. This is a 30 day notice and pricing is below. No tiers exist for these 3 TLDs and therefore the price mentioned below is for Add, Renew and Transfer, restoration as normal is mentioned at the bottom.

.SA.COM price for 1 year = $240.00

.ZA.COM price for 1 year = $240.00

.RU.COM price for 1 year = $120.00

As you can appreciate thats quite the hike. The pricing will change on 20th November 2023 at 1400UTC.

Restoration which include 1 years renewal are:

.sa.com and za.com will be $325.00

ru.com will be $205.00

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LB ccTLD Pricing update

Finally last night at circa 2200 ADT we had the latest pricing update from LB, this was the 2nd or 3rd we have had because of going back and fourth with LB on their new strategy.

To that end, we now have what we believe is a balanced pricing update, better than the first revision, but, not as good as it could have been and we will now start looking into becoming registrars for some of the larger ccTLD’s we carry.

Links are attached for the 5 Tiers we have, we have tried to keep the tiers although this has not been very easy/simple to achieve, these being in PDF format. We have also uploaded a CSV file of all tiers so you can bring that into your spreadsheet app and remove the tiers that are no use to you.

The Tier levels to remind you are:

Tier 1 – $0 – $399.99

Tier 2 – $400 – $994.99

Tier 3 – $995 – $2,499.99

Tier 4 – $2,500 – $4,999.99

Tier 5 – $5,000 onwards

Below you will find the downloadable files for the pricing. Please remember, these pricing changes are happening on the 31st July – so please (albeit late I know) reach out to your customers (or your own domains) and get them renewed before the pricing increase.

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Important Announcement: Upcoming Registry Domain Price Hike .biz

As previously advised :

Neustar the .BIZ registry is increasing its cost price to each ICANN registrar, for registration, renewal or transfer. This will be effective on 31st October 2019 at 2200 UTC.

Therefore the new prices per Tier are :

Tier 1 : $15.35
Tier 2 : $14.80
Tier 3 : $14.50
Tier 4 : $14.29
Tier 5 : $14.19

Restoration pricing will increase by $1.15 to $80.57 which will include 1 year renewal of the domain name.

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Important Announcement: .NZ Domain Privacy Updates

The .NZ Registry has recently imposed some contractual obligations with respect to handling contact information associated with their domain names. 

LB are making some changes in the registration and management of .NZ domains registered for users in the European Economic Area (EEA). If you are using the LogicBoxes API to sell .NZ domains, these changes will require you to modify your API implementation on or before September 30th, 2019.

Why these changes are necessary?

We currently mask the contact information for .NZ domain names if the registrant or other contacts are EU data subjects. The .NZ Registry has mandated that we stop masking contact information in this manner since it violates Registry policies. We are thus compelled to share the contact information for all .NZ domains with the registry.

What will change :

  1. On 1st October 2019, we will disable GDPR masking from all .NZ domains that currently have it enabled, and also disable this feature for the future .NZ registrations. The registrant and other contact data for all .NZ domains will be shared with the registry.
  2. You must start showing a notice to affected customers about their data being shared with the registry, who have the right to publish this data through their WHOIS service. 
  3. If you are using the LogicBoxes API, you must include additional parameters when registering, transferring-in or modifying contacts of .NZ domain names by customers in the EEA.

Changes in API implementation :

The changes that need to be made in the management workflow for affected .NZ domains, which you must incorporate into your .NZ domain API implementation, can be viewed here.

When will the changes be made :

The changes described above will be deployed to production on September 30th, 2019. We request that you implement the API changes on or before this date, to ensure that your .NZ registrations are not affected. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please reach out to our support team or your account manager.

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Neustar .biz Price Increase Effective 31st October 2019 at 2200 UTC

Neustar the .BIZ registry is increasing its cost price to each ICANN registrar, for registration, renewal or transfer. This will be effective on 31st October 2019 at 2200 UTC.

Therefore the new prices per Tier are :

Tier 1 : $15.35
Tier 2 : $14.80
Tier 3 : $14.50
Tier 4 : $14.29
Tier 5 : $14.19

Restoration pricing will increase by $1.15 to $80.57 which will include 1 year renewal of the domain name.

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LogicBoxes system maintenance Sunday 17th March 2019

This is to inform you that owing to some performance improvement upgrades, certain functions of the OrderBox platform will be undergoing maintenance on Sunday, March 17th. Here are more details on the scheduled maintenance:
Date: March 17, 2019
Expected Maintenance Window: 60 minutes
Products Affected: Domains
Services Affected: All new domain registrations, domain lookups and domain transfers will fail during this maintenance window. Any domain renewals initiated during this time will be queued in the system and will be processed post the maintenance.
Though the maintenance window is of 60 minutes, we expect services to be affected for less than 30 minutes. Services should largely be online however, there could be intermittent issues.
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Christmas and New Year opening hours for support 2018/2019

Christmas and New Year opening hours for support 2018/2019

Support will be open the following hours over the holiday period in GMT:

Christmas EveMonday24th December 201808:00 through 17:00
Christmas DayTuesday25th December 201812:00 through 17:00
Boxing DayWednesday26th December 201810:00 through 17:00
New Years EveMonday31st December 201808:00 through 17:00
New Years DayTuesday1st January 201912:00 through 17:00
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Afilias Fee Hikes restoration prices

Afilias is increasing the amount charged for Registration / Renewal / Transfer and restoration on 1st September 2018 for the following TLD’s.  Previously we have provided the Registration, Renewal and Transfer costs, below are the Restoration costs.

We will be setting the following prices on 31st August 2018 @ 2200 BST :

TLD	                New NEO restore
ARCHI	                $95.00
BET	                $86.00
BIO	                $95.00
BLACK	                $105.00
BLUE	                $85.00
KIM	                $85.00
PET	                $95.00
PINK	                $95.00
POKER	                $95.00
PRO	                $95.00
PROMO	                $95.00
RED	                $95.00
SHIKSHA	                $95.00
SKI	                $95.00
xn--6frz82g (Mobile)	$95.00

INFO	                $85.00

The above includes 1 year renewal.

You will notice some prices are somewhat cheaper, for example, .ARCHI.

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Afilias Fee hikes September 2018

Afilias is increasing the amount charged for Registration / Renewal / Transfer and restoration on 1st September 2018 for the following TLD’s.

We will be setting the following prices on 31st August 2018 @ 2200 BST :

Registration / Renewal and Transfer pricing per year :

TLD			Tier 1 -5

ARCHI			$48.95		
BET			$12.95		
BIO			$47.95		
BLACK			$37.95		
BLUE			$12.95		
KIM			$12.95		
PET			$12.95		
PINK			$12.95		
POKER			$37.95		
PRO			$15.98		
PROMO			$12.95		
RED			$12.95		
SHIKSHA			$12.95		
SKI			$33.95		
xn--6frz82g (Mobile)	$12.95

INFO			$13.95	$13.45	$13.25	$12.75	$12.50			

Restoration pricing will be confirmed closer to the time (we would expect next week as we are confirming a few “facts” at the moment).

 

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PIR increases pricing for .ORG

 

PIR the .ORG registry is increasing its cost price to each ICANN registrar, for registration, renewal, transfer or restoration. This will be effective on 31st July 2016, at 22:00 BST.

Therefore the new prices per Tier are :

Tier 1 $ 12.25
Tier 2 $ 11.90
Tier 3 $ 11.60
Tier 4 $ 11.49
Tier 5 $ 11.29

Restoration pricing will increase by $1.00 to $68.00 which will include 1 year renewal of the domain name.